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South Korea’s president has been removed from power
South Korea’s president has been removed from office after the Constitutional Court voted unanimously to uphold his impeachment.
Yoon Suk Yeol was suspended from duty in December after being impeached by parliament, following his failed attempt to impose martial law.
The ruling on Friday was met with tears of joy and sadness among Yoon’s critics and supporters, who had gathered in various parts of Seoul to watch the verdict live.
A snap election to vote for Yoon’s replacement must be held by 3 June.
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White House fires National Security Agency chief
The Trump administration has fired Gen Timothy Haugh – the head of both the National Security Agency and US Cyber Command – CBS has reported.
It is not clear why he was removed, but it comes after a meeting between President Donald Trump and far-right activist Laura Loomer on Wednesday. Ms Loomer reportedly urged Trump to fire specific employees whom she suspected lacked support for his agenda.
She posted on X that Gen Haugh and his deputy Wendy Noble, who US media reported was also let go, “have been disloyal to President Trump. That is why they have been fired.”
Before their firings were reported, Trump told reporters he would get rid of any staff deemed to be disloyal.
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Tariffs are yet another example of colossal, upending change
A week ago, Westminster was digesting the chancellor’s Spring Statement and all the talk was of a tightrope walk and precarious public finances.
Next, let’s go back nearly two decades to the financial crisis and the historically poor growth and negligible average earnings growth that has afflicted the UK ever since.
And then recall the calling card of the Labour Party at the general election last year and its “mission” to deliver sustained economic growth.
What is happening to economic growth? It is flatlining.
And now this: Donald Trump’s tariffs.
The implications are four dimensional, complicated, disrupting – and the precise reactions and consequences of those reactions are largely unknowable and unmappable.
But let’s be frank, they don’t provide a benign backdrop conducive to predictable, steady economic growth.
President Trump’s lament about the consequences of deindustrialisation in America and his reaction to that is prompting the UK and others to have to think nimbly and devote considerable bandwidth to preparing contingencies for what might happen next.
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Brazil to host Prince William’s Earthshot Prize
The Prince of Wales’ Earthshot Prize will be held in Brazil later this year, Kensington Palace has announced, in the same month the country hosts the COP30 UNclimate change conference.
The main awards ceremony, along with several days of events for nominees, investors and environmental leaders, will be held in Rio de Janeiro in November.
The global environmental award, founded by the prince, gives £1m to five winners judged to offer the best solution to some of the world’s biggest climate challenges.
The Earthshot Prize is a 10-year project with past ceremonies held in London, Boston, Singapore and Cape Town.
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Hezbollah at crossroads after blows from war weaken group
Last year, on 17 September, at around 15:30, a pager which a nurse called Adam was given at the start of his shift at a hospital in Lebanon received a message. The devices had been distributed by Hezbollah, the Shia Muslim group, to thousands of its members, including Adam, and he said it was how he and his colleagues expected to be alerted of emergencies or a disaster.
“The pager started beeping non-stop and, on the screen, it said ‘alert’,” Adam, who did not want to use his real name for safety reasons, said. The text appeared to have been sent by the group’s leadership. To read it, he had to press two buttons, simultaneously, with both hands. Adam did it many times, but the beeps continued. “Then suddenly, as I was sitting at my desk,” he said, “the pager exploded”.
On his phone, Adam showed me a video of the room, filmed by a colleague minutes after he was rescued. There was a trail of blood on the floor. “I tried to crawl to the door because I had locked it while I changed my clothes,” he said. The blast had opened a hole in the wood desk. I noticed a beige-like object. “That’s my finger,” he said.
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How will India navigate a world on the brink of a trade war?
Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs have put the world on the brink of a possible global trade war. The European Union has vowed a united response, and China has threatened countermeasures.
Ratings agencies like Fitch have warned that the mass tariff hikes could result in lower growth, higher inflation and potentially a recession in some parts of the world.
How will India – Asia’s third largest economy – navigate these global tremors?
Trump has dealt the most brutal blow to Asian countries, slapping 34% tariffs on China in addition to the 20% previously levied. Vietnam and Cambodia will have to pay 46% and 49% respectively.
In relative terms, at 27% India has fared better.
But the rate is still steep and will severely affect major “labour intensive exports”, says Priyanka Kishore of the consultancy Asia Decoded. “That will likely have a knock-on impact on domestic demand and headline gross domestic product at a time when growth is already stuttering,” said Ms Kishore.